This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. If you’re wondering which California geographical feature the latest Mac operating system is named after, the answer is MacOS Mojave. This ends “a four-year mountain bender,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, at the …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s next pitch is to get you to put your iPhone down. Wait, what? The effort, a response to experts’ and investors’ growing fears about smartphone addiction, is likely to be one of the key themes at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on June …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Going into Apple’s WWDC 2018 keynote, rumor had it that with the arrival of WatchOS 5 Apple would finally allow third-party developers to create and sell watch faces for the Apple Watch. That didn’t happen, but Apple did announce enhancements to the Activity …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: MacOS and iOS are definitely not getting together, or… 1:12 Apparently, Apple’s been asked this question a lot: “Are you merging iOS and MacOS?” At the company’s WWDC, Senior VP Craig Federighi wanted to tackle it head-on, saying, “I’d …
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The Blackberry Key2 has been officially revealed. And yes, it has a physical keyboard. BlackBerry will announce the BlackBerry Key2 on Thursday, June 7, but if you can’t wait a few more days, these renders may give a clear look at the upcoming phone. Frequent mobile tipster Evan Blass shared images of what he says is the BlackBerry Key2 on Twitter, …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple has a slew of new features coming with MacOS 10.14 Mojave — a dark mode, stacks to organize files, the terrific screenshot tool already iOS, a gallery view in Finder, and even the ability to run iOS apps on your Mac. Fine, great, whatever. For …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple has struggled to get people to use its Mac App Store to find and install software, but the company hopes an overhaul will help. The new Mac App Store, unveiled Monday at Apple’s developers conference, will come with a discovery tab to …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Sorry, folks. After last year’s hardware-heavy WWDC, we got nothing this year. Bupkis. Not that we were expecting much after a recent Bloomberg report said WWDC 2018 would be all about software, not hardware. But it still stings a little that we have …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Batman’s latest trick is coming to life on your kitchen table. At Apple’s WWDC, the company showed off a cool new use of Augmented Reality — a Lego game you can play with friends. LEGO + AR + Apple at WWDC! pic.twitter.com/TXlx0pyTz4 — …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is getting more serious about augmented reality. The company on Monday announced a new version of ARKit, Apple’s set of tools that let developers create augmented reality apps for iPhones and iPads. The updated version will have multi-user functions, so more than …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple Music subscribers can now listen to songs from a computer using a web browser without having to fire up iTunes — but it’s not a full-blown iTunes replacement. Apple has updated its MusicKit developer software for this week’s WWDC conference, announcing Monday that developers …
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The latest version of Lenovo’s Explorer Windows Mixed Reality headset system has been toddling along at $400 until today, when it was spotted in the Microsoft Store for half off at $200. Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft reveals mixed reality tech for the workplace 3:13 Mixed Reality headsets aren’t exactly flying off the shelves, and prices dropped significantly in January …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. At its WWDC conference on Monday, Apple took the wraps off iOS 12. If you already own an iPhone ($285 at Amazon) or iPad ($170 at Amazon), especially an older one, you might be wondering whether the device will be able to run the …
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Mac users may be excited by the addition of a dark mode to MacOS Mojave but did you know this is something Windows 10 ($144 at Amazon) could already do? When the Windows 10 Anniversary Update arrived a few years back it brought the ability to put your device into Dark Mode, which offers black windows instead of white ones. Whether you’re …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Sick of signing into TV apps all the time? There’s an Apple TV for that. The company’s streaming video box, CNET’s favorite for Apple fans and big spenders, will roll out a new feature called “zero sign-on” as part of the update to …
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